Q. This offseason you blew up a team that took you to 4 straight Quince Bowls and won 3. Take us through your thinking on trading away your core. Certainly you could have kept Shady for another year.
A. I had to. Shady, AJ Green, Brees, Seattle D and Murray all had expiring contracts I had to get some value or drop most of them for nothing. I mainly did the trades because Luck will be under paid for 4 years (by my estimation) and that outweighed paying Shady a fair $25 this year but who knows what expensive amount next year as a franchise player. It will still be painful to watch him this year. I would have been really pissed if Murray had gone for more than $14. Any higher and it would have made more sense to stick with Shady for one year. But now I have Murray locked in at $14 for two years (I credit my deal with McD to bring up Murray second overall in nomination order for that) while Hyde and hopefully Freeman develop. Brees for $28 was never going to happen. I think I made the best of a bad situation.
Q. What one thing do you feel has been the biggest key to your QFL success?
A. Scouting. You win or lose QFL based on how you do in the rookie draft and weekly free agency. Auction is mostly meaningless. Prioritize elite ability over playing time. Value invest. Never pay fair market price. Be willing to go where the mispricing takes you. I shouldn’t say any more.
Q. Which QFL owners do you feel annually provide you with the toughest competition? Which teams scare you this year?
A. Everyone except Shane, Jim & Ian and Josh. Ted’s teams are always good. Shades usually starts the season looking great but gets crushed by injuries or bad luck (opposite of me). Unusually Scott does not scare me this year. I want to know how drunk he was when he waived those guys. I still think his account was hacked. Its really hard to pick a standout team around QFL this year. None of us will win SuperQuince, that’s almost guaranteed.
Q. QBC and SOQ have had a rough go of it this summer and have been ripped mercilessly on QSN. What advice would you offer those teams?
A. I would do what SOQ is doing now and just cast a wide net for undervalued players hoping at least 3 turn into cheap annual keepers. Scour the free agency market weekly. Its called rebuild mode and it can be fun actually if you can be patient. QBC should also subscribe to FantasyGuru.
Q. During last year’s title run you went through a bit of a health scare. Did that make last year’s title more special?
A. Oh my god yeah. I made the championship game while I was still in the hospital. I was barely able to smack text with Scott from my couch I was so blitzed on pain killers during the Championship. Of my many Championships that was the most meaningful. You have no idea.
Q. Many would say that having 3 kids is borderline insane. Has it affected your overall judgment and time allocated to managing TenQ?
A. TenQ has always been my #1 priority and always will be. Yes, 3 kids is officially insane. Save yourselves.
Q. This QFL Masters idea seems really dumb and its lacking the best QFL GMs. How can a colony owner ever be considered a QFL ‘Master†anyway? What’s the point again?
A. The only reason I agreed to join a non-SuperQuince eligible QFL League is because I think it could turn into something cool in the future. There will be a rule adopted (working on it still) that essentially awards the worst QFL Masters team(s) to the best team owner(s) in QFL Nation, likely the SuperQuince, but possibly others. In this way over time, QFL Masters will accumulate the best owners of QFL Nation. Admittedly that is not currently the case but we had to start somewhere.
Q. Who is your favorite 2014 sleeper that is not currently on your roster?
A. Richard Rodgers
Q. Besides the 3 TEs, what’s the one thing you would love to change about QFL rules?
A. Giving the colonies seats on COMCOMM. Its time. We should expand COMCOMM membership from 5 to 7 seats and allow the 2 additional seats to be elected from the QFL Leagues that have been around for 2 or more seasons and have retained 80% of owners (not including the original QFL). I think this would create some interesting inter-League political campaigns and add to the overall spectacle QFL Nation has become.
Q. What is your grand vision for the QFL nation? Where do you see it in 10 years?
A. Ask Rishi. Near-term I would like to see QFL Nation with its own software built around our rules. That will make it much easier for Rishi to administer his grand plan.
Shades
I would like to know more about how this interview was conduct? in a mirror? did you have two seat facing each other, where you asked a question while sitting in one seat and then jumped to the other seat to answer the question?
Are we witnessing the beginnings of a psychotic episode?
What was the health scare?
Isn’t FahQ the only team that’s been able to stop Tenq during the run of 4 straight Quince Bowls? This objective reporter thinks you should be afraid of FahQ. Very afraid.